1. Killing Time– Big time riffs open up the track showing off the Rage influence in this track that seems to be about a guy whose been written off, but he’s only killing time until that moment where he’ll shine. 4.5/5

2. Waiting To Die– A cool track that features East Bay Ray in this song that is ultimately about how everyone dies, so you might as well live it up to the fullest and stop trying to please everyone. 4.5/5

3. Feel Good– This track features Serj Tankian (System Of A Down) and Morgan Lander (Kittie). It’s an OK mid tempo track that features Morgan during the choruses and then Serj comes in for a call and response verse with Jahred. 4/5

4. Bartender– This is one of my favorite tracks on the album and a favorite to many in the world with it’s cool swagger in the intro riff which is the same as the riff for the verses. It’s a bad luck story of picking up women at a bar. 5/5

5. Crazy Legs– A true Nu-Metal track whose chorus parodies the chorus to The Notorious B.I.G.’s Hypnotize. It’s a cool and shows the band’s love for Hip Hop and the power chord heavy driven guitar tracks is probably what got the accused of being Limp Bizkit like. 4/5

6. Pac Bell– a cool track with a more hip hop sound than the big rock riffs, but the track is about a relationship that Jahred was in that ended badly. 4/5

7. I Got You– This is another track on the album that I like because it has that classic rock sound during the chorus while the verses have less guitars. 4.5/5

8. Boom (How You Like That)– A definite hip hop driven song that is all about no matter what is going on, just get high and everything will be ok. 4/5

9. Swan Dive– A Sublime/reggae sounding track mixed with the Nu-Metal style the band employs. This is a very cool track and I believe that it looks at suicide just by some of the lyrics. This is definitely another favorite of mine. 5/5

10. Stevie-Whoever this Stevie is, they definitely pissed off Jahred for sure, just take a look at the lyrics. 4/5

11. Jesus (Of Nazareth)- This track sorta starts with that Nine Inch Nails Closer beat in the beginning, but I love the beat to this track as we explore the narrator’s struggle with some sort of drug. 4.5/5

12. The Meadow (Special Like You)- A very cool laid back track to end the album that is all about a African legend of elephants and how they believed that elephants were immortal. 5/5

My Final Thoughts– This is a very good record from the group that were literally road warriors and they never threw in the towel like a lot of other bands. The album definitely has a mixture of sounds to it, but the hip is definitely prominent on the album so if you loved that element of them, then this is for you. I am going to give the album 4.4 stars out of five for a final grade.

For today’s Eddie’s 31 Days Of Halloween film, I looked on Wikipedia and Rotten Tomatoes to make sure that it was a horror film. There are some people out there will declare that The Rocky Horror Picture Show is not a horror film, but those sites list it as a Horror Musical Comedy. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a new take on the Frankenstein story that stars Tim Curry (Legend) as Dr. Frank-N-Furter- a scientist. After a wedding, Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) and Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) decide to go on a ride to see an old scientist friend when they get a flat tire after travelling down a dead end street. They decide to go to a castle that they had seen up the road to try and get some help. What they get themselves into is a whole other question when they encounter the flamboyant Dr. Frank-N-Furter who happens to be a transvestite. Now they’ll have to try and survive one cooky night in the mad world that is inside that hospital. The film also stars Nell Campbell (Pink Floyd’s The Wall) as Columbia, Richard O’Brien (Dark City) as Riff Raff, Jonathan Adams (Jesus Of Nazareth) as Dr. Everett V. Scott, Peter Hinwood (The Devil’s Widow) as Rocky Horror, Meat Loaf (Fight Club) as Eddie, Charles Gray (You Only Live Twice) as The Criminologist, Patricia Quinn (Shock Treatment) as Magenta, and the film was directed by Jim Sharman (Shock Treatment).

One of the things I loved reading about this film was a particular scene where the cast honestly looked scared. Apparently only three people knew that they had placed Eddie’s body underneath the table. The rest of the cast had no idea that he was under there so when they revealed it, those were their honest screams. I thought that was really fascinating to know about this horror musical classic that features the classic Time Warp.You also have to take into consideration that this film was very risque for it’s time considering people were not really accepting of homosexuals. Nevertheless, the film became a cult classic that is still viewed in the cinema’s 40 years later. The film was definitely ahead of it’s time and like I said above, it was a very interesting new spin on the story of Frankenstein with some great glam rock like tracks. The visual aspect of the film is what is truly captivating with the cool sets and all of the cool props and costumes that they are constantly changing into. How can I forget to say that the acting was also pretty superb in the film as well. I’m pretty sure that right now there is a theater somewhere in the US that is showing this film which as I said is a testament to the power of the film. This was actually my first time ever watching this film and I was very pleased with it. So, if you don’t think it belongs here then too bad cause here it is. I am giving the film an A- for a final grade.